Putin was the future but we kept thinking it’s something from the past

Because I read the title and it did sound like what Israel has been saying for days

Sigh. 300,000 dead Russian soldiers have been named by independent media. A million dead is realistic. The number of casualties is in the millions. What number of 100,000s people dead passes the threshold for you?

Independent media like Zona named 112k, while, well, CSIS estimated 250k, which is well lesser than one million.

You too please have a good day and don’t forget to drink enough water

Yup, looks like it fits the definition without a stretch

https://200.zona.media/

11200 as-of now. Based on your estimate of real casualties= 3x identified casualties it’s more likely to be 300-400 thousand which is already a devastating number way beyond the threshold you have mentioned.

It’s just weird to remind that if a side, any side claims that it has 50 thousand casualties and the enemy is beyond one million, you are being fed with horseshit and you need to just stop eating it.

Win or lose, they’re fucked for the next decades at least.

Who are ‘they’? If you talk about people who decide to continue the war - not necessarily: the power and elite are cementing and the probability of toppling Putin is decreasing rapidly with each year of militarization.

If you talk about common people, then I agree, for regular russians that’s a disaster, for a tiny minority - the last opportunity to get rich.

If you equate these categories, you are a delulu

Over a million Russian soldiers are dead

Questionable. According to Ukrainian posters which should be taken with a grain of salt.

Also, COVID killed about a million russians, 2 millions die yearly. So having 1 additional million people dead in 3 years is not a big toll. That’s probably the logic of the Russian government - those who really decide whether to continue the war or not

this is the proxy war

IDK, really. True that NATO doesn’t want direct involvement and wants Ukraine to kick Putin’s ass. But it begs the question: is Russia a proxy for China or we just force the interpretation of the proxy war onto reality?

people working doing these jobs with horrible outcomes

ICE? AWS engineers? IDF officers? Crude oil refinery workers? Who exactly are you talking about if not about all of us

Imagine my mom used to volunteer together with JW back in the 90s

Didn’t think I would be alive to see anti-Israel post here

I will only remember that your dad was a living trash human. Sorry